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  • FW: President Trump Pulls United States Out of Paris Climate Accord
  • FW: Add your name: Paris Agreement
  • FW: Which three countries are NOT fighting climate change?
  • FW: Budget Cuts
  • FW: What the media got wrong about Donald Trump's budget
  • FW: sisters, brothers, parents, neighbors, and friends
  • FW: Why Trump's Evangelicals Won't Care About Those Budget Cuts
  • FW: Add your name: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline
  • FW: Students, Faculty Suffer Under New Trump Budget
  • FW: Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS

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From: Eric Kramer
Subject: President Trump Pulls United States Out of Paris Climate Accord

Are we great now???

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55426/trump-pull-out-paris-climate-accords/?src=socialflowFB

 

 

From: Patrick McHeffey
Subject: Add your name: Paris Agreement

Donald Trump just announced that he will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement—a landmark accord signed by 195 countries to mitigate climate change. In doing so, Trump has hurtled the world further toward climate and economic catastrophes, while simultaneously rupturing international alliances.1

Will you sign and share my petition to Congress and Donald Trump telling them that despite Trump's foolish decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, we, the American people, stand committed to mitigating climate change?

We, the undersigned people of the United States of America, commit to mitigating climate change and sign on to the Paris Climate Agreement.   Sign Patrick's petition

This petition is an expression to one another and to the world that we, the people of the United States, remain committed to mitigating climate change.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Source:
    1. "Trump Will Withdraw U.S. From Paris Climate Agreement," The New York Times, June 1, 2017
            https://act.moveon.org/go/10343?t=22&akid=183879.1195276.SCiGL3

A note from the MoveOn team: This is one of thousands of petitions launched by individual MoveOn members and partner organizations in opposition to the Trump administration's dangerous agenda. Petitions like this one are useful building blocks of our broader resistance organizing efforts. They are delivered to decision-makers, highlighted to media outlets, and circulated online to raise awareness and grow our progressive community. You can start your own petition here.

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?   Donate

 

 

From: BREAKING NEWS (via Civic Action)
Subject: Which three countries are NOT fighting climate change?
   

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BREAKING: President Trump is expected to withdraw from the Paris climate deal


President Trump has decided to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord. That would make us one of three countries that refuse to take reasonable steps to fight climate change: Syria, Nicaragua… and us.

This is devastating! Not just for our economy, but for the whole planet. We are falling behind countries like India and China in renewable energy development. This is unacceptable for a country that prides itself on being at the cutting edge of innovation.

Trump's decision is embarrassing on a global scale. It's terrible for our economy. And it's devastating for our planet.

The Paris Agreement pushed the U.S. to cut its emissions by 26% from 2005 levels by 2025. This is essential if we want to curb the effects of global climate change.

We need to hear from you: Do you think the US should keep our promise to fight climate change through the Paris climate accord?
   

Your opinion is important to us:
http://go.civicaction.com/Save-The-Climate

Paid for by Civic Action

 

 

From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Budget Cuts


Why Trump's Evangelicals Won't Care About Those Budget Cuts

Analysis | Trump's plans to cut food stamps could hit his supporters hardest

Media Falsely Claim White House Budget Spares Social Security From Cuts

 

 

From: Michael Phelan, Social Security Works
Subject: What the media got wrong about Donald Trump's budget

Since Donald Trump's inauguration, the national media has provided critical reporting on the very real threat that Donald Trump and his administration pose to the future of our democracy. But they have continued a troubling trend of misreporting very real economic implications that the GOP policy agenda poses to working people and older Americans.

Just look at this headline from the New York Times: "Budget Slashes Programs for Poor, While Largely Sparing Older People."

By slashing Medicaid in both his 2018 budget and Trumpcare, Donald Trump is not only throwing 23 million people off of their healthcare, he's also making it impossible for older Americans to afford long term nursing home care. And now he's proposing cutting up to $64 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), while claiming that this does not break his promise to protect Social Security.

This isn't a new development with Trump. The media has long favored discussions of Social Security and Medicare that treat them as problems, not solutions.

The truth is that candidate Donald Trump claimed to be the only Republican candidate who would protect Social Security and Medicaid. And in his first budget proposal, he proposes devastating cuts in order to give a massive tax cut to millionaires, billionaires and large corporations.

And while the media has rightly held his feet to the fire as he deviates from consensus positions on international issues and civil rights, Trump has been given too much credit when he parrots the same talking points Paul Ryan has used for years.

Sign the petition today and tell the national media to get the story right on Social Security.

Donald Trump's Budget Director spent his career in Congress attempting to devastate our earned benefits. And the media has been too credulous as they have claimed that cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance somehow aren't cuts to Social Security.

We must make sure that voters understand that Donald Trump is breaking the very promises that got him elected. But in order for that to happen, the media must hold him accountable on his economic agenda, which hurts older Americans and working families in order to give a $6 trillion tax break to the wealthy.

Stand with Social Security Works and demand the media tell the American people the truth about Donald Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security.

Together, we're saying loud and clear: Expand, don't cut Social Security!


Paid for and Authorized by Social Security Works

 

 

From: BREAKING NEWS (via Civic Action)
Subject: sisters, brothers, parents, neighbors, and friends


23. Million. People.

That's how many Americans -- sisters, brothers, parents, neighbors, and friends -- will lose their health insurance under the GOP's healthcare bill.

This bill isn't just bad for our economy. It's immoral and unjust.

We cannot let this happen, Munsup. Sign your name NOW to tell Congress: Don't steal our healthcare >>
   


Taking healthcare away from Americans will hurt our economy and our communities.

We cannot sit idly by and let this trickle-down Congress put 23 million lives at stake.

So please, please: Sign your name immediately to tell Congress that we will NOT forget that they were willing to rip healthcare away from 23 million Americans >>
   


Healthcare should be a right for every American. Not a privilege reserved for the trickle-downers at the top.

We'll never stop pushing forward -- but we need to know that you're with us:

http://go.civicaction.com/Save-Our-Care


Paid for by Civic Action

 

 

From: Judy Burnette
Subject: Why Trump's Evangelicals Won't Care About Those Budget Cuts


Why Trump's Evangelicals Won't Care About Those Budget Cuts


"As the White House releases its budget that slashes support for the poor, the elderly, and the sick in favor of tax cuts, evangelical support for President Trump remains strong. This, despite what most people see as the obvious Christian obligation for charity, is not economic justice. The degree to which Trump seems an unlikely evangelical standard bearer has been widely explored. (See Sarah Posner and Christopher Stroop for insightful analyses.)

Certainly the "alt right" and authoritarian threads are important. Also critical is the argument that some aspects of the Trump agenda are merely tolerated by evangelicals because they care more about fighting abortion/LGBTQ rights and "preserving" their privilege in the name of religious freedom.

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"The religious right loves Trump. This in spite of the fact that Trump plans on cutting financial support for the poor while giving tax breaks to the rich. As this article shows, this is in line with the thinking of Christian Reconstructionists/Dominionists who want to turn the US into a Bible-based Christian theocracy." -- Deism Daily News Service, May 25, 2017


"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom
of the Palestinians"  - Nelson Mandela

 

 

From: Josh Nelson; Deputy Political Director, CREDO Action from Working Assets
Subject: Add your name: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline

 

CREDO action

Tell the Nebraska Public Service Commission: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline

Submit your comment to the Nebraska Public Service Commission:

"The Keystone XL pipeline would transport over 800,000 barrels of dirty tar sands oil per day through Nebraska farmland, threatening water supplies and the environment and fueling runaway climate change. I urge you to reject TransCanada's pipeline application."
   

Take action now ►

 

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The Trump administration has issued the final federal permits for the Keystone XL.1

This dangerous action by the Trump administration reverses one of our biggest climate victories of the Obama administration – but the fight to stop the pipeline is far from over.

TransCanada needs a permit to build part of the pipeline through Nebraska, and the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC), which is conducting a multi-month review of the pipeline project, is currently accepting comments from the public. This a crucial opportunity to speak out and pressure the Nebraska PSC to reject TransCanada's permit and stop Keystone XL once and for all.

Tell the Nebraska PSC: Reject TransCanada's permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Click here to add your name.

TransCanada's proposed route through Nebraska would destroy sensitive and environmentally important ecosystems as well as threaten the region's water supply. The pipeline would cut through the massive Sandhills region in north-central Nebraska, a fragile region of sand dunes and prairie grass home to endangered species such as the whooping and sandhill cranes, bald eagles and the burying beetle.2

Potential oil spills from the pipeline would be devastating and could contaminate the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world's largest underground freshwater sources. The aquifer supplies drinking water for millions people in the region and provides irrigation for 20 percent of the nation's farmland.3,4

With the Trump administration reportedly planning to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, it's more important than ever that we stop disastrous fossil fuel infrastructure projects here in the United States.

Our allies in the climate justice movement have filed lawsuits to block the construction of the pipeline, so this is our opportunity to join the fight to protect the environment and prevent dirty tar sands oil in Canada from fueling runaway climate change. With a so-called president who publicly denies climate science and an administration in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry, this action could be one of our last chances to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.


Tell the Nebraska PSC: Reject TransCanada's permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Click the link below to add your name.

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/nebraska_keystone_xl?t=7&akid=23368.10312106.GWQj46

Add your name:
  

Take action now ►

References:

  1. Michael McLaughlin, "Keystone XL Protesters Won't Back Down After Trump Approval," The Huffington Post, March 24, 2017.
  2. "4 Key Impacts of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines," National Geographic, Jan. 25, 2017.
  3. Susan Miller, "Dakota Access, Keystone XL: 2 pipelines, 2 flash points," USA Today, Jan. 24, 2017.
  4. Adam Riesselman, Thrills and Spills: The Keystone XL Pipeline," Science in the News, Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, March 17, 2015.

 

 

From: Rudy Fichtenbaum; President, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Subject: Students, Faculty Suffer Under New Trump Budget


The Trump administration's proposed budget, released last week, cuts the Department of Education budget by 13.5 percent and reads like a primer on how to destroy higher education and research. The budget guts student-loan forgiveness, subsidized loans, the federal work study program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Fulbright program, to name a few targets.

Earlier this year we opposed similar cuts proposed in the administration's "skinny budget," and we continue to stand strongly against the new budget proposal. We'll be delivering an open letter voicing our opposition to lawmakers on Capitol Hill during our annual lobbying day on June 15.

In March you signed the earlier version of the letter voicing our opposition to the budget.

Please share the letter with colleagues and friends and urge them to join you in fighting for higher education.

P.S. Here's the direct link to the open letter to share: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/a-damaging-budget-proposal-from-trump

 

 

From: Eric Kramer
Subject: Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS

 

Even more than the ineptitude of the Trump administration on a massive scale, it's THIS side of rising Conservatism that truly frightens me, and which should frighten ALL Americans....

"The Republicans played a dangerous game by giving credence to all those conspiracy theories about Obama, a game that made them a target of the right-wing rage they engendered. They have been the author of the rise of the radicals, peaceful and violent, that in turn is tearing the party apart.

Meanwhile, the right-wing extremists continue their plotting against America."

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html

 

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